Price tag



May 23, 1933.

F. KOHNLE PRICE TAG Filed Nov. 18, 1931 INVENTOR Patented May 23, 1933 FREDERICK KOHNLE, OF DAYTON, OHIO,

.ASSIGNOR TO THE MONARCH MARKING SYSTEM COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO PRICE TAG Application filed November 18, 1931. Serial No. 575,861.

The invention relates to improvements in the method of attaching price marking tags and particularly to the method employing a commercial pin for securing the tag to fabric merchandise along the principles disclosed in my prior Patents, No. 1,528,023, dated March 3, 1925, for Method of securing price marking tags, and No. 1,669,390, dated May 8, .1928,fr Price tags.

In accordance with the disclosure of these prior patents, the pin is engaged through and through the tag and merchandise and the point of the pin is bent or crimped so as to direct the same against or into the under face side of the tag for the purpose of guardingthe point and to furnish means for preventing accidental withdrawal of the pin or release of the tag from the goods.

In attaching the tag to some classes of fabric it has been experienced that if the metallic fastener presents any burr or hook at its end, that there is liability of it being caught into the threads of the fabric as the pin is withdrawn for detaching the tag, resulting in a runner or injury of the fabric.

It is, therefore, an object of the invention to shear off or blunt the pont of the pin after the pin has been driven through the tag and merchandise and immediately subsequent to 3 applying the tag to the merchandise.

Further advantages andfeatures of the invention will be more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawing,

forming a. part of this specification, in which: Figure 1 is a plan view of the tag as applied to a piece of fabric merchandise by a commercial pin.

Figure 2 is a section on line 22, Figure 1, showing the point end of the pin at the under side of the tag, sheared off to present a blunt end.

Figure 3is a view similar to Figure 2, on

i an enlarged scale, showing the cut-off porerably in a manner so that the pin head 4 i and merchandise are held between anvil clamping devices in a manner appropriately curving or bowing the tag and merchandise to facilitate for a straight drive of the pin with the point of the pin finally directed and guided so as to pierce through the ta and lie between the under side of the tag and upper side of the merchandise. After the pin has been inserted, the point end is clipped or sheared off to render it blunt, eliminating the point as a hazard. This avoids the necessity of sheathing the point within the body of the tag or otherwise guarding the same, and with the pin end blunt, its reinsertion is diflicult and if resorted to, as for unscrupulous switching the tags, is easily detected.

Having described my invention, I claim The method of securing a tag to fabric merchandise, consisting in passing a commercial straight pin through and through the tag and merchandise and clipping off the point in such a manner as to blunt the pin and at' such location as to have the pin terminate between the tag and merchandise.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name.

FREDERICK KOHNLE. 

